New research suggests that primordial black holes could have played an important role in the formation of the universe's ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

Since its launch in late 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been glimpsing some of the earliest epochs of cosmic ...

Thorpe] was catapulted out of the scissor lift when it was approximately 19-20 feet up and landed on the ground,” the lawsuit claims.

"Primordial black holes should form during the first few seconds after the Big Bang. If they exist, they have some advantages over astrophysical black holes," Regan said.

Understanding the early universe is a foundational goal in space science. We're driven to understand nature and how it ...

Primordial black holes could be a type of dark matter called MACHOs, which stands for massive compact halo objects, because astronomers think they’re found in the halos, or outskirts, of galaxies.

More information: De-Chang Dai et al, Searching for small primordial black holes in planets, asteroids and here on Earth, Physics of the Dark Universe (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.dark.2024.101662.

Massive primordial black holes could be the long sought answer. Such large, heavy objects might also have served as the anchors around which early galaxies coalesced, another conundrum that has ...

That is, a hypothetical primordial black hole (PBH) with a horizon size no larger than a grapefruit, and with a mass 5 to 10 times that of Earth. How might it be detected?

Tiny ‘primordial’ black holes created in the Big Bang may have rapidly grown to supermassive sizes Did 'primordial' black holes born right after the Big Bang help our universe's 1st stars form?